[Note:
Perhaps one reason Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't want to
testify regarding the recent terrorist attack against Americans in Benghazi,
Libya is that she would be asked why the Obama administration handed
Libya over to Al-Qaeda! Former Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member Walid
Shoebat on his website has claimed: "We have come into possession
of an array of records obtained from top level sources inside the Libyan
government. They include passports of Al-Qaeda operatives and identification
of terrorists from many nations...now all camped in Libya....(The documents)
show evidence of bribes by the government to top officials, weapons
dealings, and bank siphoning by Al-Qaeda operatives." Shoebat's
documents indicate Al-Qaeda operatives now in Libya include Abdul Wahhab
Hasan Qayed (officially in charge of Libyan border control), Sufyan
Gammu of Ansar Al-Sharia (and one of the most wanted Al-Qaeda members),
and Abdul Baset Azzouz (head of Al-Qaeda in Darnah, Libya). Al-Qaeda
literally runs the Libyan government, and therefore controls the largest
oil-producing nation in Africa. This could provide Al-Qaeda with a steady
stream of money, and therefore enable it to carry out terrorist plots
for decades to come.]

As
I have written before, the Power Elite (PE) doesn't like strong national
leaders because they might decide to act independently in a way not
desired by the PE. Therefore, just as the PE wanted strong nationalists
like Mossadegh in Iran removed from power in 1953 and Saddam Hussein
removed from power in Iraq more recently, the PE now has decided Bashar
al-Assad's time is up in Syria. However, they have not armed the revolutionaries
sufficiently to rout his army because they want his removal by negotiated
settlement, probably under the auspices of the United Nations.

I
have also written how the PE's goal of a World Socialist Government
(WSG) will be achieved by linking regional economic arrangements. This
involves revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa bringing most
Arab/Muslim nations under the control of the MB. This is why MB leader
Mohamed Morsi became president of Egypt. However, because the PE doesn't
want strong national leaders, Morsi's recent attempt to decree himself
almost dictatorial power was resisted by large protests, and Morsi retreated
from his power quest.

Originally,
Morsi said his November 22 decree was to preserve the Egyptian revolution
overthrowing Hosni Mubarek. It placed him above judicial oversight so
that the Constitutional Court (CC) appointed by Mubarek could't dissolve
the panel drafting the new Constitution. In April, the CC had dissolved
the Constitutional Assembly which was drafting the Constitution, and
on June 30 the CC had dissolved the lower house of parliament.

The
PE doesn't want the Taliban's extreme interpretation of Sharia (Islamic
law), and Morsi has endorsed the new Constitution's reference to "the
principles of Sharia" rather than Sharia itself. Human Rights Watch,
though, "warns that the document is ambiguous on women's rights,
allows military trials of civilians and offers no protection for religions
beyond Islam, Christianity and Judaism" (TIME, December
24, 2012). Some of the protests against Morsi's decree had become violent
(on December 5, eight were killed and hundreds wounded), but MB lawyer
Mohamed Beltagy advised against violence saying that once the new Constitution
became law, the people could simply vote the MB out of power, if they
wanted, in the parliamentary elections in 2 months (TIME, December
24, 2012).

On
December 25. Egypt's electoral commission confirmed that by 63.8% of
the vote (voter turnout was only 32.9%), the new Constitution was approved.
And parliamentary elections will be held by the end of February.

Morsi's
opponents are led by Mohamed ElBaradei, and among their grounds for
opposing Morsi is that the latter is using the same "torture chambers"
as Mubarek did! Egyptian newspaper Al-MASRY AL-YOUM reported:
"There are brigades and police officers in military uniforms, as
well as others in civilian clothes...who oversee the beatings, whippings
and torture." Once a protester against Morsi is arrested, "they
ask him why he took to the street, whether he got paid to take part
in the protest and whether he supports Mohamed ElBaradei or Hamdeen
Sabahi (founder of the Egyptian Popular Current)....As long as the person
denies the allegations, they beat him and insult his parents. Beatings
continued while the victims were transported from the secondary torture
chamber to the central one. Many of the prisoners were unable to answer
questions after severe beatings, and they were not given medical aid
despite bleeding over their entire bodies."

The
MB is well organized, though, and extremely practical. Therefore, they
will in all likelihood make whatever compromises they have to in order
to remain in power in Egypt.

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Elsewhere,
on January 1, 2013 AL-KHALEEJ (a Sharjah-based newspaper in
the United Arab Emirates, UAE) reported that an Egyptian MB cell of
more than 10 people had been arrested in the UAE for training local
Islamists on how to overthrow Arab governments. Remember that on March
25, 2012 the police chief of Dubai, UAE, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan, claimed
that the "Brotherhood was plotting to change the regimes in the
Gulf (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE). My sources
say the next step is to make Gulf governments (their ruling families)
figurehead bodies only without actual ruling. The start will be in Kuwait
in 2013 and in other Gulf states in 2016."

This
past October, UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan
said, "The Muslim Brotherhood does not believe in the nation state.
It does not believe in the sovereignty of the state." This is why
the MB fits perfectly into the PE's ultimate plan for a WSG.

Dennis Laurence Cuddy, historian
and political analyst, received a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill (major in American History, minor in political science).
Dr. Cuddy has taught at the university level, has been a political and
economic risk analyst for an international consulting firm, and has been
a Senior Associate with the U.S. Department of Education.

Cuddy has also testified before members of Congress
on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Cuddy has authored or
edited twenty books and booklets, and has written hundreds of articles
appearing in newspapers around the nation, including The Washington Post,
Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He has been a guest on numerous radio
talk shows in various parts of the country, such as ABC Radio in New York
City, and he has also been a guest on the national television programs
USA Today and CBS's Nightwatch.